George Lloyd: A Litany and A Symphonic Mass

Release Date: 3rd May 2024
Catalogue No: SRCD2419
Label: Lyrita
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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Lloyd, G: A Symphonic Mass

Work length55:47

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brighton Festival Chorus
George Lloyd

I. Kyrie

Track length7:52

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II. Gloria

Track length11:06

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III. Credo

Track length13:37

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IV. Offertorium

Track length3:04

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V. Sanctus - VI. Benedictus

Track length11:48

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VII. Agnus Dei

Track length8:20

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Lloyd, G: A Litany, Pt. 1 "Father of Heaven": Allegro dramatico

Work length10:46

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Jeremy White
Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra
George Lloyd

Lloyd, G: A Litany, Pt. 2 "O Holy Ghost": Allegro

Work length11:11

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Jeremy White, Janice Watson
Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra
George Lloyd

Lloyd, G: A Litany, Pt. 3 "For That Fair Blessed Mother-Maid": Adagio

Work length6:03

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Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra
George Lloyd

Lloyd, G: A Litany, Pt. 4 "From Being Anxious, or Secure": Vivace

Work length17:28

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Jeremy White, Janice Watson
Guildford Choral Society, Philharmonia Orchestra
George Lloyd

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‘I just write what I have to write’. The artistic credo of George Lloyd conveys the directness and emotional honesty of his music, which is distinctive and written with integrity. He was fortunate enough to discover his individual and versatile musical voice at an early age. The deceptively artless quality of his scores stems from a thorough grounding in composition techniques. He wrote in a traditional idiom enriched by a close study of selected models, Verdi and Berlioz chief among them. There is a remarkable consistency to his output, most of which was created spontaneously and without the incentive of a commission. Conceived on a grand scale, Lloyd’s late choral works build fruitfully upon his previous experience in other genres. They share with his operas an innate lyricism, natural affinity with the human voice and feeling for the long line, while their structural balance, intensive working out of motifs and rich orchestral palette owes a significant debt to his prolific symphonic output. Chris de Souza writing in The Independent, 1998, described the Brighton Festival commission of A Symphonic Mass as ‘perhaps the climax’ of Lloyd’s ‘astonishing career’. In his review of the original release of the present recording, Ivan March was moved to describe the Mass as ‘one of the finest pieces of English choral writing of the twentieth century’.

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